Dragging Question

Fal01

Hi all,
I'm making a game where you drag letters to specific places to spell a word.

When the right letter reaches it's target I want to be able disengage the ability to drag the letter.

It works when you collide/overlap the target, but kinda sticks to the side of it. I can't seem to get it to stop in the middle of the target.

Any ideas much appreciated!

pipe

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tatiang

@pipe please don't "backseat moderate." If you feel there's a problem with a particular post or thread, please contact a moderator via private message.

There's a more recent thread about this issue here: https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/57262/drag-and-drop-something-to-a-grid#latest.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@tatiang glad to see the moderators are cracking down on some users who are spreading misinformation and clogging the forum with nonsense. Thank you!

Fal01

:-/

Hopscotch

What you need to do is let the Letter "snap" to the center of the target and then disable the drag ability.

If your Letter and/or Target is quite big and the "snap" makes too much of a jump upon colliding/overlapping, then you have at least two options:

a) upon collide/overlap do a proximity calculation between Target and Letter before the "snap" happens. I.e. only "snap" when the center of the Letter is within 20pixels from the center of the Target.

b) constrain a smaller actor to the center of the Letter, same with the Target. Then put the collide/overlap "snap" logic into these smaller actors.